Please help us congratulate Prof. Davidson for several very notable accomplishments and awards this year!
She has become Chair of Board of Directors for the Computing Research Association (www.cra.org), the primary voice of the computing research community.
She was awarded a Corresponding Fellowship for the Royal Society of Edinburgh (UK)
She received a Penn Trustees' Council of Penn Women / Provost Award
And of course, she also co-chaired ACM SIGMOD 2015.
Professor Boon Thau Loo and Penn DB Group PhD alumnus Changbin Liu have founded a new Philadelphia-based startup, Termaxia, focused on revolutionizing Big Data storage. We wish them the best of luck and look forward to watching them grow!
Submitted by dbgroup-admin on Mon, 01/12/2015 - 01:00
SIGMOD 2015, to be held in Melbourne Australia, is the premier database conference. Susan Davidson and Zack Ives will be the Program Co-Chairs this year.
Submitted by dbgroup-admin on Sun, 05/12/2013 - 11:28
Wenchao Zhou, who was advised by Boon Thau Loo and recently joined Georgetown University as an Assistant Professor, was just awarded Honorable Mention for the 2013 ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award! Congratulations Wenchao!
Submitted by dbgroup-admin on Sat, 12/01/2012 - 15:10
Congratulations to Changbin Liu, and to his advisor Boon Thau Loo, on Changbin's successful PhD defense! His thesis was titled Automated Cloud Resource Orchestration.
Svilen has officially completed his dissertation, and will be joining Carlos Guestrin at the University of Washington as a postdoc! Congratulations, Svilen.
Svilen has officially completed his dissertation, and will be joining Carlos Guestrin at the University of Washington as a postdoc! Congratulations, Svilen.